Bryson Katona, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in the United States, where he serves as the Director of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Genetics Program and Director of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Risk Evaluation Program, and he also is a member of the Cancer Control Program of the Abramson Cancer Center. Bryson is a physician-scientist who is an expert in gastrointestinal cancer genetics, and his research program focuses on the diagnosis, risk assessment, management, and biology of hereditary gastrointestinal cancer predisposition syndromes. Bryson is currently President-Elect of the CGA-IGC, serves as a member of the CGA-IGC Meeting Planning Committee, and serves as the Council liaison to the CGA-IGC Research Committee. Bryson also sits on national committees for the AGA, ASCO, NCCN, NANETS, and PRECEDE.